Distortion Model

In this paper, we present a novel distortion model for phrase-based statistical machine translation. Unlike the pre- vious phrase distortion models whose role is to simply penal- ize nonmonotonic alignments[1, …...

In this paper, we argue that n-gram lan- guage models are not sufficient to address word reordering required for Machine Trans- lation. We propose a new distortion model that can …...

In this paper, we first demonstrate the in- terest of the Loopy Belief Propagation al- gorithm to train and use a simple align- ment model where the expected marginal values …...

This paper proposes new distortion mod- els for phrase-based SMT. In decoding, a distortion model estimates the source word position to be translated next (NP) given the last translated source …...